On Sunday’s Reliable Sources, Brinkley said that Acosta was like a “goading Dan Rather” who is always trying to “get at the president.”

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Rather, of course, disgracefully exited CBS News after running a “fake news” story about George W. Bush’s National Guard service.

CNN showed a clip of Acosta demanding Trump denounce neo-Nazis and the KKK at the president’s Trump Tower press conference last week.

“What about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, alt-right? Do they have any semblance of guilt? what about the fact they came charging with clubs in their hands? As far as I’m concerned that was a horrible, horrible day,” Trump said.

After Acosta started hectoring and interrupting Trump, the president snapped back by telling Acosta: “I’m not finished, fake news.”

“You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent,” Trump concluded.

Though it may have been inadvertent, Brinkley richly connected old-school “fake news” Rather to “new-school” “fake news” Acosta, who has often sought the limelight while questioning Trump to up his own profile.